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• Bilingual writer with critically received books in both China and the West
• Producer of some of the most watched documentaries about China seen on mainstream Western televisions
• Communicator dedicated to making China more understandable to the world, and vice versa

Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia.  She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale University … Continued

• Economics Professor at Renmin University’s School of Economics in Beijing
• Senior Fellow of the Brooking Institution Foreign Policy program and Acting Director of Tsinghua-Brookings Center
• Expert in Chinese agricultural development and economics

• Associate Professor of Political Science and member of Security Studies Program at MIT
• An expert on Asian policy studies and international defense
• Rhodes Scholar

Tong Zhao is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, working for both the Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie China. Formerly based in Beijing, he now conducts research in Washington on strategic security issues, such as nuclear … Continued

• Founder and Chairman of the board of Horizon Research Consultancy Group, China’s leading public opinion and polling organization
• President of the Beijing Consulting Association
• Vice President for China Marketing Research Association
• Representative of the Association of Management Consulting Firms in China

• China Business & Finance Editor for the Economist
• An expert in sustainability, global innovation, technology
• Chairman of the Economist‘s provocative series of conferences on innovation known as the Ideas Economy

• Professor of political science at Beijing Foreign Studies University
• Expert in US-China relations and policy
• Researches U.S. Congress, public opinion, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy

• Professor of Economics at China’s Peking University
• Expert in China’s economic development and prolific journalist/scholar
• Winner of 2009 Chinese Economic Sun Yefang Award

• Founder of Yuan Associates, a premier Chinese government affairs firm
• An expert in government affairs
• Former China Agriculture Attaché in Washington D.C.